Process of making soap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER LAFAYETTE CRANE, OF HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.

PROCESS OF MAKING SOAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,035, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed November 30, 1888.

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER LAFAYETTE CRANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hot Springs, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVashing Compounds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a Washing compound consisting of the following ingredients combined in the manner described: Water, three and one-fourth gallons; soap, six pounds; Sal-soda, three pounds; rosin, three ounces; borax, on e-half pound; salts tartar, two ounces; benzine, two ounces. Six pounds of any ordinary soap is dissolved in three gallons of soft (preferably rain) water with three ounces of rosin, pulverized, and three pounds of salsoda; also, in a separate vessel dissolve onehalf pound of borax with two ounces of salts of tartar. After these two solutions have been allowed to boil until thoroughly mixed, combine them and agitate until thoroughly mingled. Remove the heat and allow the mixture to cool for about fifteen minutes, and then add the benzine, after which the resulting compound may be molded into cakes of any desired shape.

Serial No. 292,287. (No specimens.)

This soap is designed to be used in the ordinary manner to rub the clothes and to place in the washinguvater.

I am aware that all of the herein-described ingredients have been used heretofore in soap compouglds; but I am not aware that they all have been used in one compound, or that they have been combined in the manner and in the proportions herein set forth.

Having described my invention, I c1ai1n- The process of producing an alkaline horax ALEXANDER LAFAYETTE CRANE.

Witnesses:

N. L. WILLIAMS, JAMES M. ANDERSON. 

